The human being is unhappy because he devotes too much time to the body and too little to the mind; true happiness arises only through mental training and the letting go of suffering and desire.
The text deals with the care of body and mind as the central task of the human being. While the body needs food, work, and sleep, the mind needs different nourishment: happiness, goodness, virtue, and mental warmth. The speaker criticises that people devote much time to the body but hardly any to the mind. Pleasure and material goods bring only fleeting happiness and intensify craving. The real task consists in calming the mind through practice and letting go. The mind tends to cling to suffering, anger, and hatred, much like an addiction. Through mindfulness and meditation one should learn to let go of negative feelings quickly, rather than storing them up inside. The text ends with an abrupt, difficult-to-classify passage that points to an oral tradition.
Analysed with qwen3.8-27b, version v3.
The same standards apply to every tradition, see Values.
Full text in English
When a person is born, they have a body and a mind. The body and the mind are possessions that the mother gives, or to put it more correctly, nature gives them. Once we have obtained the body and the mind, we must use them to be beneficial. The size of how we use the body and the mind is also worth taking care of. The body needs food and physical nourishment, but physical nourishment is not the food of the mind. The food of the mind is happiness, goodness, wholesome virtue, mental peace, warmth of heart. Happiness is something that the mind yearns for, but one must also make a choice about what kind of happiness is truly beneficial. Some things do make the mind happy, it is true, but that happiness is fleeting and opens the door for defilements and craving to come and occupy the mind. Once defilements and craving have taken hold of the mind, the mind easily becomes suffering, because it wants and never stops. So when we are going to take care of the mind, we must know the food of the mind that gives the mind true happiness. That is peace, that is virtue, that which makes the mind peaceful and cool, warm, such as loving-kindness, compassion, contentment, being satisfied with what one has, being content with what one has obtained, and so on. As for the critic, this one uses most of the time, or perhaps resembles Elvis, spending most of the energy on the matter of earning, on our work, ten hours a day, all for the comfort of the body, such as having a house, having a car, having things that bring comfort, but it is comfort of the body. The money earned is all spent on the matter of earning. Not only that, in our time of rest, we rest the body only, by spending one third of the day sleeping, having things that bring comfort, but it is comfort of the body. We rest the body only, by spending one third of the day sleeping. But we have almost no time to rest the mind. But resting the body does not rest the mind. Thinking, sleeping and thinking, at night dreaming, during the day daydreaming. If people were to give more time to the mind, we would be able to be happy more easily. We would have contentment in life. People do not give little time to the matter of earning for the body, but they do not take care of the mind as much. A person may live on a beach, have a house worth ten million, a hundred million, have a car, but it is difficult to find happiness. The mind does not rest at all, because of stress, or because of dreaming and fantasizing, until it leads to depression. This is because we give value, or give importance, to the body, give time to the body too much. Because of things that are matters of objects that are nourishment for the body, some things are done to open the mind, but in the end it makes the mind become a burden. The matter of seeking is a thing that is hard to let go of. This thing may not open the body as much as it opens the mind, but in the end it goes to the stomach, and the stomach comes to burn the mind, to eat the mind, until it is burning, or it is chaotic, unable to find peace. In fact, the most important thing is practice. We have a body and a mind. Taking care of it without practice is not enough. We must practice. Because the mind is different, it has a nature that is not like the body, or the brain, or a stroke. We also arise easily, so we must try to train the body to be accustomed to being still, and then we will know that it is difficult to be accustomed to making the body walk, run, exercise. This is difficult but necessary, because exercise will help make the body strong, not easily ill. And the mind, this must be trained. The mind likes to wander, wandering and sinking into our matters, picking up and putting down, picking up and putting down matters, thinking outside, thinking this and that until one cannot sleep. So this is what we need to know, that is, to make the mind still. Making the mind still is a matter of practice. Whoever has practiced will know that making the mind still is not easy. When it is time to sleep and rest, it does not want to stay in place. It thinks restlessly. Then it goes to think about matters, about children. People do not know how to make it stay in its place, or it comes to stay with the present moment. This is the world of peace. In general, one does not want to let go. One must force it to come out. Do not stay still. Most people will have their mind wander, not to the point of being completely lost, but it is a matter of today. If one continues to practice, the energy will go to the matter of letting go, the matter of letting go of the body, the matter of letting go of the mind. We will implement this. There will be a path, we will find the path and go in to let go. This is something that should be done, and it must use a lot of effort, because most people want to let go quickly. One must practice to know how to hold it first, see the defilement come in, then let it go. But the mind is the opposite. Whatever is a defilement, it likes to cling to or exceed. Defilements of emotion, anger, hatred, hatred, various problems, these are defilements of emotion. But people who are hot, they like to hold on, like to plan. This is speaking of the mind. It never agrees to let go. When someone makes us angry, makes us sad.
We will hold onto anger, hatred, hatred, hatred, hatred, hatred, hatred, hatred, hatred, hatred, hatred, hatred, hatred, hatred, hatred, hatred, hatred, hatred, hatred, hatred, hatred that has gone to pierce the heart. One must know how to grasp, know how to let go. Do not hold on, do not cling to it. This one must learn to know the body, learn to know our hands. Our hands like to throw away, right? Money, soon it will be said to be garbage. And that we come to practice concentration and mindfulness also, so that the mind knows how to grasp, throw away garbage, not hold it and bring it to burn the heart, or not be diagnosed. This is called having the matter of carrying, of clinging. The body thinks slowly, waiting to carry something of Peterson's, will give to carry, but this one does not want to carry, even if it has value, just lift according to weight. The matter of not wanting to carry, but if you lift it, put it down, it's just lifting, they take the cover, shake, must have arising and ceasing. Lifting a heavy weight, must do it in time, because how, lift and put down immediately. This is the body, but the mind likes to carry, likes to have arising and ceasing. Suffering that arises with the mind, but that which is carried is also. The matter of setting up properly, that is new to us, all of us, yet it is light, then the matter of what has not yet happened but goes to fabricate, until it speaks of the water, carrying, the camera comes down, the bay also carries too much, both the mood and the strong drawing that fabricates but again. People in this house will have their opinion, as long as the story is good that the seventh one carries, the sending of the word and the night of the action of anyone that we are not satisfied with, we carry. Oh, surely that we should train the body to know how to carry, a little, so that it will have strength. As for the mind, it is different, train the mind to know how to often, know how to put down quickly. A mind that does not want to often, does not want to put down quickly, this will be suffering. Being struck, being struck by anger, the skill of pressing, INAUDIBLE, calling Mr. dimensions, not skilled, wolf computers, like getting the skill of gliding, I am trying to let go quickly, try the matter of pulling the new one to come to the point, no need to command. When our hands are touched by something hot, such as a hot stove, a hot pan, or for example an electric shock arises, the body will command the flesh to pull away immediately, which also helps to make the body safe. But the mind is different, when it encounters suffering, it goes back to circle around it, does not like anything, the mind also goes back to sink and stay with that thing. When someone has good words with us, words that we do not like, words that make us angry, the mind also goes back to think of those words, again and again, like karma, it takes the self, takes the, has more to come to pierce almost like a rich shop of ours. Who praises us, we remember, never seen it, never been like this, because the person who comes to scold us, because who scolds us, we will remember it a little, not much, because we will think of making ourselves light, that is draining. When the flesh or hands are touched by something that bites, such as a snake bite, or a cat, a mouse, or a thorn, the first reaction is also to pull away, pull away, and then what do we do? We take that flesh or hand to smell, and when we still know that there is something, we wash. After washing, what do we do next? We smell it. When we do not like it, why do we keep smelling it? It is not just that smell. The action, the words of anyone that do not please us, that we do not like, we will hold and keep thinking about it, again and again, sometimes we think, we do, it must also be in the dreams. This is the strange thing. If our mind has a reaction to suffering, quickly, clearly, immediately, it is the body, oh, our mind will be very comfortable, and Chikky Pay will also be happy easily. But our mind does not do that. When it encounters anything that is suffering, it will circle around and revolve with that thing. But this tube, or this, is to let go and be far away. And this is the result that we must practice, which is to think with mindfulness, that the mind will rush in to find, or go to circle around, what is not good, we also know that, and then put that thing down. I am, we do not like to sell, it will slowly circle around the not-good, the matter, the matter, looking at the circling of the not-good, going all the way to parents, the whole world, this one, we also, in the 700, stuck in the right, or that the body is sinking, stressful, angelion, now, conundated, that makes suffering, that makes anger, that makes hatred, that makes loss, it dares to go in to circle around, when it is sad, the mind is for this, similar to a person who will listen, because of harm, listen as much as it is sad. When it is sad, why do we go to find what makes us sadder? When we are angry at someone, why do we try to circle around the impermanent story of them, so that we get angrier? Even if we know that giving up is a good thing, but there will be the thought that giving up, why? Even if we know that letting go makes the mind calm, cool, free from burning, but we still practice. Who comes to tell us to give up, why? Letting go also goes to receive the anger toward that person. All things that tell us, they help make the mind calm and cool faster. We will also know that the mind likes to be possessive, suffering is also like water, the human is like a person addicted to tobacco, this one will also try, the human is like tobacco that is in the mouth, different from tobacco that is in the ball, it is a ritual, but the human is like
The anger, the greed, the envy, it's not like that, it hurts our hearts, but the heart of this one, looking at our suffering, has a lot of meaning, struggling, it shouldn't be in the US, it shouldn't be, I'm crying because if we don't have amy, or if we lose them quickly, we don't love them, soon Pitts will be because Real must say we accept ourselves, this word spoken now, the words of the Buddha are in agreement.